North Korea has ordered city workers and students to toil on its rice farms, after spy chiefs revealed starvation deaths have tripled in the country this past year.
Government officials and students have been sent from Pyongyang to farms in South Hwanghae Province, according to Daily NK, a newspaper based in neighbouring South Korea.
Even Russian diplomats have been called upon for “goodwill labour” – with propaganda photos showing consular staff at work on a vegetable farm near Nampo city.
